Alex_computer

You don't celebrate Christmas? How about as a birthday present then?

I still like IE9 the best.

Happy Halloween!

I definately voted for Microsoft Security Essentials.

This one brought me a good laugh!

The only bad thing about McAfee is that it is such a resource hog.

I would maybe try the new MSE 2 when it is released. I am currently tested the beta, and so far, it is excellent.

Hmm, do you remember how long ago it was doing that?

Buttons, I'm surprised that MSE do that. For all of the machines I have installed it on, around 20, there has been absolutely no slowdown whatsoever.

I definately think that Microsoft Security Essentials is much better than Avast. MSE has better detection rates and uses less system resources.

I would choose neither. Kaspersky is close to the best.

Unfortunately, I've tried everything in the Microsoft Support article. The installation isn't even showing up under Recovery Console. Does anyone happen to have a Windows XP Media Center Edition CD?

I currently have a PC that has Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 on it. It is in a no-boot situation due to hal.dll being corrupt or not being able to be found. Unfortunately, I do not have a CD for Media Center Edition. I only have a Windows XP Professional and a Windows XP Home Edition CD. Could I use either of these two CDs to perform repairs on the PC through a repair install?

The autorun.inf is an Autorun file that is on the IPod. It is a worm that is spread via removable devices. What other computers has your daughter's IPod been plugged into? Any of them could have infected it, and then it will try to spread to your computer and any others that it is plugged into. I would allow Avira to clean the drive, and then run scans on all of the computers that the IPod was plugged into to check them for the infection.

In my opinion, there is a huge difference in antiviruses. Between the detection rates and resource use, each product has it's own "personality".

I would go with Microsoft Security Essentials for free and Kaspersky for paid.

This site was actually featured as Kim Komando's Cool Site of the Day a couple of days ago.

Happy Birthday! Sorry I'm so late, just logged in! Atleast from here you still have 40 minutes left!

Sorry, but I have to agree, a little inappropriate.

I also noticed that Kaspersky 2010 is version 9. And 2011 is version 11. Whatever happened to poor version 10?

Mountaintree16, your running 11.0.1.400 version, I think Remixed is running version 11.0.0.232. They changed the wording in the update.

Mountaintree16 is correct. The Perform Regular Rootkit Scan changed to Perform regular scan for active threats in the newest version of 2011.

I definitely second the opinion to update to the latest version.

Hmmm, that is not good for Kaspersky. I have had it remove the same rootkit that he did, and it did so successfully.